The Big Lebowski Essay

The film "The Big Lebowski" is about a mid-age unemployed man who gets mixed up in a misunderstood kidnapping, and becomes the middle man to the whole shenanigan. Any normal person would have probably called the cops or handled things in a different fashion, however, the main character ( who goes by the name The Dude) is no ordinary person. Threatened, beaten, drugged, arrested, seduced, no matter what situation he's in the Dude finds a way to keep his composure and just keep flowing through life. Dude is the hero to his own story, capturing the audience’s attention with his laid back attitude despite the rough situations he encounters.
In the City of Los Angeles, Dude shares the same name as another Lebowski, a well-known wealthy man who looks down upon him. Unlike the Dude, Lebowski is a grumpy snob that makes plans to use Dude into scheming a million dollars from his company. Having the impression Dude is a screw up Lebowski asks dude to take charge of a million dollars that will be the ransom for the fake kidnapping exchange of his wife. With the many screw ups Dude has …show more content…
When Dude was given the ransom money, not once did he have the motive to keep the money for himself. Lebowski admits he thought Dude would have ran off with the money, and although Walter his friend wants to keep some of it, Dude never considers it. Many of us would have called the cops or even kept some of the money for ourselves. Never the less Dude follows instructions and only wants to help in order to get himself a new rug. Later he is encountered by Lebowski’s daughter, she tells Dude about her father’s failures in business and how she believes the kidnapping is fake. Telling Dude to take her side on all this and get her the ransom money, Dude isn't sure what to believe so he agrees. In the mix of all these complications, all Dude wants it to be over so no one gets hurt and he can go back to